LTE has gone live in the UK, with EE opening up its 4G doors to subscribers hoping for a little extra boost in their smartphone or mobile hotspot. The launch - which has hardly left rival UK carriers happy, waiting as they are for more spectrum before they stage their own LTE deployment in mid-2013 - sees smartphone plans from £36 per month with a device, while EE is also offering fiber broadband for homes and businesses.
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EE lights up 4G LTE and fiber in UK
Verizon Nokia Lumia 822 official with 4G LTE [Update: $100]
Verizon and Nokia have officially announced the CDMA version of Nokia's Lumia 820, the Verizon Lumia 822, running Windows Phone 8. Supporting Verizon's EVDO Rev.A and 4G LTE networks, the Lumia 822 is otherwise identical to the GSM model which will be offered on both AT&T and T-Mobile USA, complete with interchangeable covers and the possibility of wireless charging.
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EE confirms LTE iPad mini and iPad 4th-gen headed to UK
EE has thrown in with Apple's new iPad 4th-gen and iPad mini, confirming that it will be offering LTE versions of the two tablets "in the coming weeks." Sold alongside the Orange and T-Mobile UK versions - which will be limited to HSPA+/DC-HSDPA - the 4G iPads will be tied to data plans from £25.99 per month for your mobile browsing.
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AT&T Q3 2012: 6.1m smartphone sales and 4.7m iPhone activations but revenues flat
AT&T activated 4.7m iPhones in Q3 2012, the carrier has confirmed, with 44.5m subscribers now using smartphones, and helping push average revenue per subscriber to a record $65.20 apiece. The company announced its latest financial figures this morning, with revenues of $31.5bn flat in comparison to the same period a year ago; operating income actually fell, meanwhile, down from $6.2bn to $6.0bn.
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iPad 4th generation: Here’s all the supported carriers
Apple announced the 4th-generation iPad today, and it came with some incremental updates compared to the third-gen model, including the new A6X chip, a better camera, and improved WiFi. While some may not see this as a huge update to warrant a completely new generation of the iPad, Apple did add other carriers to the 4G LTE mix.
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O2 preempts Square with mPOS UK mobile payments system
UK carrier O2 has taken on Square, VeriPhone, and others in the mobile payments space with a new smartphone-enabled system targeted at small businesses and independent vendors. O2 mPOS (Mobile Point of Sale) is a compact chip & PIN terminal that hooks up via Bluetooth to a smartphone or tablet running the companion processing app, and allows for card payments no matter if the vendor isn't even an O2 customer.
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EE reveals 4G pricing: UK LTE from £36/mo
New UK 4G carrier EE has revealed its LTE plans, with a variety of phone and mobile broadband packages as well as some added bonuses each month for subscribers. For regular users, EE will offer monthly plans with unlimited calls and texts, and 500MB of data, for £36 per month; there’ll also be 1GB, 3GB, 5GB, and 8GB packages for £41-£56. Meanwhile, mobile broadband is priced from £15.99 per month for 2GB. Full pricing and details after the cut.
$150 AT&T Nokia Lumia 920 priced to undercut rivals (but not HTC)
Nokia's Lumia 920 has been prematurely priced up for its US-exclusive launch on AT&T, with Best Buy spilling the competitive costs for the Windows Phone 8 handset. The 32GB 4G smartphone will be $149.99 with a new, two-year AT&T agreement, according to Best Buy's listing, while unactivated it will set shoppers back $599.99. However, even undercutting most mainstream smartphones by fifty bucks won't make it the cheapest Windows Phone 8 flagship.
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Verizon carrier billing coming to Google Play
If you've been with T-Mobile or AT&T in the past and miss your ability to add Google Play purchases to your carrier bill each month now that you're on Verizon, you'll be glad to know that they'll be joining the party too quite soon. A confirmation of this update to the Google Play store as well as Verizon's connection to it has come through today via Google Play's official twitter account, complete with a date range for the roll out. If you're on Verizon you'll be able to add digital purchases to your normal carrier bill starting soon - within the next few weeks, in fact!
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Verizon sells 6.8m smartphones in Q3 2012
Verizon Wireless sold 6.8m smartphones in the last quarter, with service revenues in Q3 2012 climbing 7.5-percent year-on-year and 1.8m new customers inking agreements. Revenues hit $16.2bn for the three month period in wireless, with smartphones now comprising more than 53-percent of Verizon's mobile users. Meanwhile, the average spend by those users is also up, with average revenue per account (a switch away from average revenue per user) climbing 6.5-percent to $145.42 per month.
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GSIII Jelly Bean “in the coming months” says Samsung: Specifics left to carriers
Samsung has committed to pushing out Jelly Bean to all US variants of the Galaxy S III, though has stopped short of saying when - beyond "in the coming months" - Android 4.1 will arrive exactly. Instead of a firm date, the Jelly Bean update is in the hands of Samsung's carrier partners, the company concedes, which will also be able to decide whether to deliver it OTA or via Kies (or, indeed, both).
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Softbank buys 70% of Sprint in $20.1bn deal
Japanese carrier Softbank has confirmed it is acquiring a majority share in Sprint, in a deal worth $20.1bn expected to be closed by mid-2013. The deal, rumored last week, will see Softbank pay $12.1bn to Sprint's existing shareholders to snap up the struggling US CDMA carrier, with the remaining $8bn used to "strengthen Sprint's balance sheet." The acquisition will see Softbank attempt to bring some Japanese-style LTE magic to Sprint's network in the US, with current CEO Dan Hesse remaining on in his position.
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